Flight Ops Final

If an airplane engine cut out in midair, which force would decrease almost immediately?

• Gravity

• Thrust

• Weight

• Drag

Also known as air resistance, is the force of air pushing against something moving through the atmosphere

• Atmosphere

• Drag

• Feature

• Aerospace

Practically all clouds & storms occur in this layer of the atmosphere.

• Stratosphere
• Thermosphere
• Troposphere
• Mesosphere

Compared to a warmer air mass, a colder air mass

• can hold more water
• can hold less water
• is less dense
• is lighter

Lightning and thunder can form during unstable atmospheric conditions in which types of clouds?

• Altostratus
• Alto cumulus
• Cumulonimbus
• Nimbostratus

Which is likely to occur after moist air is cooled below its dew point?

• Evaporation increases
• Ice crystals melt
• Water condenses
• Winds are generated

This type of cloud is thin, wispy, and made of ice crystals

• cumulus cloud
• stratus cloud
• cirrus cloud
• cumulonimbus cloud

The temperature at which water vapor condenses is the 

• relative humidity
• humidity
• freezing point
• dew point

This type of cloud is thin and flat, and the edges are not clearly defined

• cirrus cloud
• cumulus cloud
• stratus cloud
• cumulonimbus cloud

Nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds can signal what type of upcoming weather?

• fair skies
• hot, sunny weather
• windy weather
• rainy weather